Re: [Mod-c-users] mod_c development?

[Gonzalo A. <gon...@gm...>]

Hi Steffen,

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Steffen Wendzel
<cd...@us...> wrote:
>
>  I just took a look at mod_c. I really like the idea of a
>  made-easy-c-web-development. Because of this I started my
>  own c-coding specialized httpd project including a C web dev
>  system. But today I found mod_c what is exactly what I
>  develop on (but mod_c is specialized for apache).

your project is web-server-independent?

>  Could you explain me why the development of mod_c doesn't go
>  on? Maybe I am interested in helping on the development
>  (specially on EHTML).

Well, there are some reasons for that:
1) mod_c/EHTML user community is not quite big, I'm affraid.
2) I am an active user of mod_c.
3) I add a feature and fix any bug as soon as they come up.
4) Since user community is not hughe, there are very, very few feature requests.

Matej and me had some different ways of approach the issue of
developing web applications in C/C++.

Matej (correct me if I am wrong) wanted to emulate .NET framework
(therefore, EHTML).

I just wanted a framework to provide some basic access to web server
resources (read request, send response, check some aspects of the
request -like http cookies-, session managment, and so on).

I also developed an *SQL data access framework as well named ysql
(supports query caching), a template engine (closed source, sory :( ),
and a C++ object mapping to relational database framework (named
omodel).

My particular need was to develop a highly scalable CMS.  Therefore,
my web application had to split web page design from source code.
That's why I used only a very very few items of EHTML, and developed a
template engine (based on xml).

What are your needs for a C/C++ web application framework?  Do you
have any particular idea on how C/C++ web development should be done?

Regards,

-- 
Gonzalo A. Arana